ISBN: 1893505138, Hardcover 6"x9", 212 pages,
Bestseller, US $34.95
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"Creating Real
Relationships is a remarkable book - the most definitive I have ever read on issues of
expressing the real self in relationships...great relationship advice"
-John Gary, PhD
"Richard Pfeiffer has
developed a quality program for overcoming shame and difference in relationships"
- Barbara Burch, M.D. - Chicago, IL.
If
you are or hope to be in an intimate relationship you will want to give this book to
yourself and your partner. Creating Real Relationships is an inspiring guide that
offers relationship advice and encouragement for those seeking more meaning and healthy
closeness in their relationship. A real relationship provides its partners with the
opportunity for personal growth, development of the real self, and emotional and spiritual
healing. The author weaves professional knowledge with personal experience to show the
reader how to overcome the power of difference and shame, which may threaten the level of
relationship satisfaction. This essential book offers clear explanations, practical
skills, insightful background, and a map for the healing journey possible in real
relationships.
The search for meaning is
the journey of expressing one’s real self. This book describes how two partners can
seek to develop a relationship in which both find support for the expression of their real
self. Partners who make a real relationship work have certain skills. They know and
practice core interpersonal skills, which allows them to form a relationship that can
endure, deepen, and grow.
One of the unique
features of this work is its focus on the dynamics of difference and shame underlying what
goes wrong–or what can go very right-with relationships. The dynamics of difference
and shame have the power to set up the development of a false self. The false self
defensively refuses to assert the real self. Overcoming the power of these dynamics is the
source of transforming unhealthy wounded relationships and individuals into healthy ones.
Creating
Real Relationships is recommended to be used along with couples or marriage
counseling. The Relationship Advice
speaks directly to improvement in the following
areas:
